What is this called?
Nov. 18th, 2014 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgandawnDoes fandom have a word or a phrase for people (fans, journalists...) deliberately asking about fanworks/showing fanworks to the actors and other TPTB. Examples: making the actors read fanfic out-loud, showing them fanart in public and observing their reactions, asking actors in front of an audience about slash, sending/giving actors/TPTB fanworks privately, putting actors/TPTB into positions where they are forced to make a statement about fanworks...
This is not necessarily outing, because it is not always tied to a specific fanwork. Ex: someone asking an actor about slash or mpreg or RPF.
This is not necessarily outing, because it is not always tied to a specific fanwork. Ex: someone asking an actor about slash or mpreg or RPF.
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Date: 2014-11-18 11:06 pm (UTC)Oh wait, you meant this specific type of asswipe. I dunno. I think there haven't been enough incidents of the journalist-version to get a term attached to them yet...probably one will pop up after a few more incidents of this occur. For fans...I guess people just lump it in with other general not-widely-approved-of fan behavior towards actors/producers.